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Invisible man dominates US-China talks

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President Barack Obama sidestepped a question about Chinese dissident Chen Guangchen on Monday, refusing to confirm that the blind lawyer is under U.S. protection in China or that American diplomats are attempting to negotiate an agreement for him to receive asylum.

"Obviously, I'm aware of the press reports on the situation in China, but I'm not going to make a statement on the issue," the president said at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko.

He added, "what I would like to emphasize is that every time we meet with China the issue of human rights comes up."

Obama declined to provide any information as his administration and the Chinese government sought to prevent the biggest human rights issue since Tiananmen Square demonstrations to disrupt high-level strategic and economic talks set to begin in Beijing on Thursday.

The two governments have signaled that the global economic, North Korea, Iran and Sudan hold far more significance in U.S.-Chinese relations than the fate of one man. Thus, the president's reluctance to comment on Chen's status was in keeping with a view presented in both countries that the dissident is an invisible man.

Earlier, State department spokesman Victoria Nuland was also tight-lipped.

"I have nothing for you on anything having to do with that matter," she responded repeatedly to reporters' questions before Obama's news conference. She confirmed that the top U.S. diplomat for Asia, Kurt Campbell, is in Beijing to prepare for the fourth round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, she refused to say if he was discussing Chen and pointedly refused to utter the dissident's name.

A U.S. rights campaigner, Bob Fu, has said U.S. and Chinese officials are ironing out a deal to secure American asylum for a blind Chinese legal activist who fled house arrest, with an agreement likely before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives this week.

Campbell arrived in Beijing early Sunday, at least a day ahead of schedule and, according to activists, is in intensive discussions with the Chinese to resolve the Chen matter before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner get there. But Nuland said the meetings will go on as planned.

"Both sides want to solve this in a low-key manner and they do not want this to dominate other issues in the (strategic and economic) dialogue so that's why they are working hard to find a speedy solution," said Bob Fu of the Texas-based rights group ChinaAid, which was involved in Chen's escape from house arrest last week and his subsequent arrival into the protection of U.S. diplomats in Beijing.

Despite the silence, the handling of his case -- the most serious U.S.-China rights crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the most serious overall since an American spy plane was forced to land on China's Hainan Island in 2001 -- will have profound ramifications on both sides of the Pacific.

Obama's options are limited. Facing a tough fight for re-election in November, he cannot afford to ignore the situation. Doing nothing to help a visually impaired, self-taught lawyer who has fought against forced abortions and corruption in China would open Obama up to attacks from his presumed Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. It would also draw intense criticism from the human rights community in the United States, one of his core constituencies.

But at the same time, pressing the issue too hard may prompt a backlash from China, on which the U.S. is increasingly reliant for foreign capital and support as it seeks to lead the global economic recovery, deal with North Korea and Iran's nuclear programs and prevent a potential war between Sudan and South Sudan.

The key to resolving the situation may well rest with an aging cadre at the top of China's Communist Party, who could either promise protection for Chen and his family in China or allow him to leave the country, possibly even to Hong Kong or Macao, as they prepare for their own leadership transition later this year.

"Mr. Chen prefers to stay in China if he and his family's safety can be guaranteed. In the current environment in China that might not be possible so a viable solution is to have him and his family come to the U.S.," said Fu. He said a face-saving option may be to let Chen and his family come to the U.S. for medical treatment.

The ouster of powerful politician Bo Xilai following a deputy's visit to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu in February has already laid bare some of the party's dirty laundry ahead the changes and the Chinese will be loath to lose more face over Chen, whose case was raised repeatedly by American officials, including Clinton herself, until the information blackout began last week.

Human rights has been a distasteful issue for Beijing for decades and it has criticized the U.S. approach as lecturing. Clinton made waves on her first trip abroad as secretary of state when she said that human rights could not dominate the entire agenda with China at the expense of other pressing issues.

Her comments drew fire at the time, but the relationship has clearly evolved as global priorities have shifted.

While China in the 1990s was in need of foreign investment and diplomatic partners and was willing to send jailed dissidents into exile to get them, Beijing sees little need for such concessions now, with its diplomatic clout and coffers bulging with foreign exchange. As the first and second largest economies, the U.S. and China have intertwining interests, and as the reigning superpower and burgeoning world power, they are frequently jostling for advantage across the globe.

the video of Chen

http://youtu.be/ycMCdAtgeu0 

escaping from house arrest, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng issued a dramatic video message calling on Premier Wen Jiabao to protect his family, punish the people who had attacked them and combat corruption, recounting alleged abuses he and his family suffered at the hands of police.

"Premier Wen, so many people do not know whether such illegal acts are the acts of corrupt local officials or commanded by the central authority. I think you must thoroughly investigate the truth and give your people a clear answer," Chen said. "If you continue to ignore this and do nothing, what will the people think?"

Chen, a 41-year-old lawyer, was jailed for four years after exposing forced sterilization and other abuses carried out by Chinese family-planning authorities, then placed under house arrest once his prison term was over. He escaped last weekend in a rescue operation mounted by his supporters.

"I finally escaped," Chen began his Friday video message to Wen.

Chen asked Wen to investigate and punish police officers who he said had repeatedly attacked his home, robbing and assaulting his family. In one instance, more than 10 men had pinned him to the ground, and beat and kicked him for four hours, Chen said.

His wife was beaten so badly that her eye socket bone was broken, but she was never allowed to call for medical treatment, he said. Chen said his child was followed to school every day by three officers. He said his mother was grabbed by the arm and thrown to the ground on her birthday, her head hitting a door.

"She accused them of the shame of hurting the old. And they actually said back to her: 'Yes, this is true! ... You old ones can’t beat the young.'" Chen said. "This is evil. Inhuman. Intolerable.

"You must see to the bottom of this," the activist said. "Even though I am free, my family ... are still in their grasp. While I was there, they were repeatedly harmed. Now that I'm gone, I can only imagine how it has blown up."

Chen's rescue appears to have been timed to coincide with U.S.-China discussions on human rights this week. His case has attracted global attention.

video of NY Lawyer calling for prosecution of Bush Et al for war crimes

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cheati

Iraq War Was Illegal, Had ‘No Basis In International Law’

Dutch Inquiry:

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“This is the authoritative view of seven commissioners including the former president of the Dutch supreme court, a former judge of the European court of justice, and two legal academics.”

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- US and UK knew that Iraq Didn’t Have WMDs

- Tony Blair ‘knew Iraq did not have WMD before war started’

Inquiry says conflict had no sound mandate in international law as it emerges UK denied key letter to seven-judge tribunal

US Marines on the city limits of Kut, 100 miles south of Baghdad in April 2003 AP

The war in Iraq had “no basis in international law”, a Dutch inquiry found today, in the first ever independent legal assessment of the decision to invade.

In a series of damning findings, a seven-member panel in the Netherlands concluded that the war, which was supported by the Dutch government following intelligence from Britain and the US, had not been justified in law.

“The Dutch government lent its political support to a war whose purpose was not consistent with Dutch government policy,” the inquiry in the Hague concluded. “The military action had no sound mandate in international law.”

In a further twist, it emerged that the UK government refused to disclose a key document requested by the Dutch panel.

The document – allegedly a letter from Tony Blair asking for the support of the Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende – was handed over in a breach of diplomatic protocol and on the basis that it was for Balkenende’s eyes only, an inquiry official told the Guardian.

“It was a surprise for our committee when we discovered information about this letter,” said Rob Sebes, a spokesman for the Dutch inquiry. “It was not sent with a normal procedure between countries – instead it was a personal message from Tony Blair to our prime minister Jan Peter Balkanende, and had to be returned and not stored in our archives.

“We asked the British government to hand over the letter but they refused,” Sebes said.

Details of the Dutch inquiry’s findings and the refusal of the British government to disclose the letter are likely to increase international scrutiny on the Chilcot inquiry, as it emerged that the UK was instrumental in influencing the Dutch decision to back the war.

“In its depiction of Iraq’s [weapons of mass destruction] programme, the [Dutch] government was to a considerable extent led by public and other information from the US and the UK,” the Dutch report says.

“This report is an objective finding – it was not political, we searched for the truth,” said Sebes. “We think that over 10 months the seven members of committee made a real effort to make a finding of high quality.”

Philippe Sands QC, a professor of international law, who gave evidence to the Dutch inquiry, said: “There has been no other independent assessment on the legality of the war in Iraq and the findings of this inquiry are unambiguous. It concludes that the case argued by the Dutch and British governments, including the then attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, could not reasonably be argued.

“This is the authoritative view of seven commissioners including the former president of the Dutch supreme court, a former judge of the European court of justice, and two legal academics.”

The findings have prompted controversy in the Netherlands, where Balkenende has so far resisted calls for a formal parliamentary inquiry into his government’s decision to back the war.

However, the report is likely to influence analysis of the events in the UK, experts say, with senior judicial figures among those concerned that the Chilcot inquiry lacks the expertise on issues of legality in comparison to the Dutch panel.

“The findings of the Dutch inquiry that the war had no basis in international law are even more important for a domestic audience in Britain,” said Sands. “I do not see how the five members of the Chilcot inquiry, none of whom is legally qualified, could possibly summon the means to reach an alternative conclusion.”

Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent
Tuesday 12 January 2010 19.05 GMT

Not sure what this means but I think it means restucturing debt

China’s Irrational Economic Structure Is Unsustainable
A way out is not possible under the Communist Party’s rule
By Wei JingshengCreated: February 9, 2012Last Updated: February 15, 2012
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A portrait of the economist Larry Lang, taken near his residence in Shanghai, China, in September 2006. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
Recently, Hong Kong economics professor Larry Lang (Lang Xianping) had some accurate comments about the current economic situation in China, pointing out that China is essentially bankrupt. However, he was not willing to link the responsibility for the economic situation to the political system, and thus was unable to provide a realistic prescription.
Nevertheless, the situation he described according to the surveyed data is indeed the real picture of China’s economy. The data may seem like exaggerations; in fact, they are not. Not only is the data true, but long ago, a lot of the information had already been haltingly delivered by other experts who are familiar with the matter. The reason that professor Lang’s comments produced a sensational effect is because he dared to voice conclusions that others have not dared.
Irrational Structures
One of his important conclusions is that the Chinese economic structure is extremely irrational and very deformed. During his closed-door speech in Shanghai last October, Lang pointed out that the Chinese people’s total consumption is a shocking 8 percent of the total GDP (Gross Domestic Product), even lower than the least developed African nation at 16 percent.
During his Shanghai lecture, he also pointed out that 70 percent of the GDP is used in construction and related industries. The words professor Lang used were “to produce reinforced concrete.” That leaves only 30 percent for all the Chinese people across the country, and most of that is exported in exchange for foreign currency.
Chinese officials have already transferred their wallets, their wives, and children to other countries that are governed well.
Most of that 30 percent went into the pockets of corrupt officials and both Chinese and foreign capitalists. Thus, the 1.3 billion Chinese people could only consume that mere 8 percent of the GDP—a living fraction lower than that of Third World countries in a nation that is known as the world’s second largest economy.
The two irrational structures—the minimal public consumption and the excessive construction—are the root cause of unsustainable development in China, as well as the root cause of most social conflicts in China. Not only is China’s economy not sustainable; its politics is unsustainable as well.
So, regardless of whoever is in power, whether the Communist Party dictatorship or a democratic replacement, that government must change the economic structure, making the whole and each detailed part more reasonable. Then, the development of China and the Chinese people’s living standard could be on the right track, the society could be in relative harmony, and politics would be relatively stable.
Otherwise, intense social and economic conflicts will inevitably lead to the collapse of the government and to social unrest.
Increase Domestic Consumption
How to change to make it reasonable? Let us examine the problems first. The two irrationals pointed out by professor Lang—minimal consumption and excessive construction—are in fact two aspects of one irrational policy.
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From one perspective, the peoples’ consumption is too low, which results in a small domestic market. From another perspective, the government invests most of the money in real estate projects for high profit, meanwhile holding down the exchange rate in an effort to dump consumer goods, which could be used domestically, in the international market.
Some of the foreign currency gained was used for foreign goods in an attempt to increase consumption, mostly among the wealthy, but that was just a small fraction. This profiteer-type development strategy, like fishing by draining the whole pond, is the root cause that leads to deformities of the economic structure. This is the mercantilist strategy, as it is very politely referred to by international media and scholars.
Under the control of this profiteering strategy pursued by Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, the people of China and the United States have given away high profits to the Chinese state, and the bureaucratic-capitalist class, and international capitalists that have relations with the Chinese state.
The Chinese people’s total consumption is a shocking 8 percent of the total GDP, even lower than the least developed African nation.
The result after they united together and made huge money is the impoverishment of the people in China and other countries, including the United States, thus resulting in the decline of the global consumer market, and thus the global economic recession. During this recession the most miserable ones are the Chinese people.
The consumption level of the Chinese people was designed to be at a minimum for survival. Now with the economic recession, naturally the Chinese state transfers the crisis to its poorest citizens. More and more people cannot survive by relying on their meager income. This is when politics entered a state of crisis. So adjusting the economic structure is not only what the people need, but also what any government in China would pressingly need to do.
This adjustment must start by increasing the domestic consumption of the Chinese people first. Simply put, there are two things that must be done immediately. One is to stop the real estate investment contributing to the bubble economy, and move toward investment in other consumer goods. The lower real estate prices could help to recycle the surplus of currency in circulation, and to curb inflation in China.
Another is to improve the yuan exchange rate, to increase imports to fill in the shortage of the domestic market. This can also recycle currency in circulation in the domestic market and curb inflation.
These two simple measures could both curb inflation and improve people’s living standards. The subsequent result is that China’s economic development model would gradually move toward something more reasonable, while the political crisis will tend to ease.
‘Stripped Officials’
However, the cost of these measures is what the Communist Party and its bureaucrat-capitalist class would not accept. The cost is that the state’s revenue, along with that of the bureaucrat-capitalist class and the multinational companies, would drop significantly, even becoming negative.
If the Chinese state had a democratic government that must be accountable to the people, or even if it was only a kingdom or dynasty having a leader who is not fatuous enough to be irresponsible for the regime, it would take these simple measures to save the country, unless it has already lost authority to take the measures.
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But the current China is a deformed country, with a deformed government. The government does not need to be accountable to the people, nor responsible to the state. They are only responsible to the interest groups of their own bureaucrat-capitalist class.
When the class of rich and powerful says “no,” the government will not do anything. You need not ask them what they will do when this country collapses. That is easy. They already know this government will collapse. They have already transferred or are transferring what they treasure—their wallets, their wives, and children—to other countries that are governed well.
Even their mistresses have opened money-laundering enterprises in the West, which has traumatized anti-drug police, who wonder which kind of money is getting laundered.
So there is a modern vocabulary term in China now called “stripped officials,” along with a saying: “I am a rogue, so why should I be afraid.” Whether China collapses or not really has little to do with these communist officials.
Under the control of a bureaucrat-capitalist class, which is not responsible and does not want to be responsible, will anyone be able to pay a price of their own to save this country? So professor Lang had to use language that does not belong to a professor: “You all should go cry.”
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Although he does not dare say the meaning clearly, his conclusion is indisputable. Without overthrowing the rule of the bureaucrat-capitalist class that is neither responsible nor wants to be responsible, there is no hope for China. So crying becomes the only option and no one can save you all.
Wei Jingsheng is a prominent Chinese dissident. Human rights prizes he has won include the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in 1994.

dissolve the ccp

China’s Domestic Security Chief Fights Back
By Li Tianxiao On April 3, 2012 @ 9:06 pm In Thinking About China | No Comments

Generally, when internal affairs are unstable, a head of state wouldn’t leave the country. There are a number of reasons why Chinese leader Hu Jintao dares to attend the Nuclear Security Summit and visit three Asian countries while Party faction infighting at home is still smoldering.

One reason is that Hu is sure of his control over the country and confident in his ability to control the situation; the second is that he has been setting a trap for his enemies to come out; the third is to calm the minds of the international community; and the fourth is to obtain word from Obama about the leaked information by Wang Lijun.


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U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly asked Hu Jintao at the summit meeting, “How are things going at home?” Maybe he was trying to see how confident Hu is. It appears that the 10-year-long question of “Who is Hu?” will only be revealed through results on the battlefield of the Communist Party’s infighting.

Control of the PLAC

Hu seemed to achieve most of the goals he set for this trip. Especially the trap seems to be working out well, as the Jiang Zemin faction and Zhou Yongkang launched a timely counterattack as soon as Hu had left the country.

Right after Hu left China on March 26, Zhou tried to weaken Hu’s influence during the first of a series of training sessions for the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (PLAC) heads at each level of Party organization.

The training was ordered by Hu, and was to be devoted to the study of Hu Jintao’s thought during his absence. Apparently Zhou knew nothing of it in advance, but was ordered to give the opening speech to the heads of his own organization.

Zhou, however, never mentioned Hu in his speech, and also tried to separate Hu from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee. Zhou stressed that the Party Central Committee is leading the police, judiciary, and armed police, but didn’t mention Hu.

The CCP established the PLAC, a party organ, to control the police, judiciary, and armed police systems. The Party Central Committee that Zhou referred to is the PLAC under his leadership, not the Party Central Committee led by Hu Jintao.

This quite clearly reveals Jiang Zemin’s goal of controlling the police, judiciary, and armed police systems through the PLAC and to establish a second CCP Central. Zhou was directly telling the local level PLAC heads to listen to him and not to Hu.

During the State Council meeting the same day, Wen Jiabao pointedly said that the Party’s problem is corruption, hinting to Zhou Yongkang that he has evidence of Zhou’s corruption. This showed that Wen is in command during Hu’s absence.

Control of Chongqing

After Hu left Beijing, Chongqing officially replaced the new police chief Guan Haixiang, who was installed just 44 days previously and is reportedly a member of Hu Jintao’s Communist Youth League faction. He Ting, Jiang Zemin’s son-in-law, took over as Chongqing deputy-major, party secretary, and chief of police.

This was obviously approved by Zhou Yongkang and Chongqing’s new CCP secretary Zhang Dejiang, and is an open challenge of Hu and Wen’s orders to reform Chongqing. Even as more than 50 former Bo Xilai subordinates have been detained and interrogated, the Jiang faction is still trying hard to wrestle for control over Chongqing.

Internet Control

Following Bo Xilai’s arrest, the regime’s Internet censorship seemed to have relaxed somewhat. For a few days, many “sensitive” key search terms were unblocked on Baidu. As soon as Hu had left the country, Zhou seized the opportunity to retighten control and regulate the Internet.

Li Changchun, the Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of Party propaganda, who had previously displayed an ambiguous attitude, now also responded in a show of support for Zhou. On March 26, state media Global Times initiated a stern counterattack against Internet rumors with an article titled, “Keep the social defense line against rumors.”

On March 30 and 31, respectively, both Xinhua and the People’s Daily picked up the call and issued articles denying information of a Zhou coup or that Zhou was under internal control by Hu and Wen. They warned that anyone disseminating such messages would be punished by the law.

Then suddenly Internet censorship was further tightened. Beijing police detained six people for “fabricating rumors online.” Seventy Internet companies were punished. Commentary websites on Sina and QQ.com were closed for three days, and 16 other websites were shut down.

The crackdown was obviously instigated by Zhou Yongkang, who was fighting back against Hu and Wen. Carrying out arrests and Internet blocking in such a short period of time reveals Zhou’s fear of having his crimes exposed.

Zhou’s counterattack also indicates that Zhou and the Jiang faction don’t intend to be a sitting duck.

There is now no way to turn back for both Hu and Wen.

Hu and Wen’s Next Move

Battles between Jiang and Hu have come to the final showdown stage, and China is also on the eve of drastic changes. Hu and Wen’s next move is critical. For Hu and Wen to really make a difference, what can they do now? How can they win the game?

There are actually several things that Hu and Wen can do right away.

The first step is to release human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, and then to release all those who have innocently or arbitrarily been detained, including Falun Gong practitioners.

With the PLAC’s weakened power, this is a realistic approach for Hu and Wen to win the people’s hearts, defeat Zhou and the Jiang faction, and detach themselves from the crimes committed by the Jiang faction.

Gao Zhisheng published three open letters to the CCP in the past, with two directly addressed to Hu and Wen, in which he demanded an end of the Falun Gong persecution.

Gao’s release will be a major blow to Zhou and the Jiang faction, as it will cause a subsequent exposure of the heinous crimes by the Jiang faction and the PLAC during the persecution of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and also people from all walks of life. It will arouse universal indignation. By doing so, Hu and Wen will be able to cut themselves free from the Jiang faction, reduce their own guilt and responsibility, and obtain the goodwill of Falun Gong practitioners. It will also win them support across the country.

How are things going at home?

－U.S. President Barack Obama asked Hu Jintao at the Nuclear Security Summit

Dismantle the PLAC

The second step Hu and Wen should take is to take back from the PLAC the power to mobilize the armed police and return it to the Central Military Commission. Retrieve the authority to mobilize the armed police from the PLAC, and then completely disband the PLAC as well as the extralegal 610 Office, which was set up by the PLAC for the exclusive purpose of persecuting Falun Gong. The elimination of these two malignant tumors, the PLAC and the 610 Office, is an act that is both expected and applauded by the public.

Next should be the arrest of Zhou Yongkang. Zhou stands accused of many heinous crimes: treason, murder, persecution, corruption, rape, and more.


Click this tag or www.ept.ms/ccp-crisis to read about the most recent developments in the ongoing power struggle within the Chinese communist regime. Intra-CCP politics are a challenge to make sense of, even for veteran China watchers. Here we attempt to provide readers with the necessary context to understand the situation. Get the RSS feed. Get the Timeline of Events. Who are the Major Players?

Lift Information Blockade

Another step is to lift the information ban in all domains to give the Chinese people access to overseas websites, satellite TV, and radio. Allowing The Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty Television, and Sound of Hope Radio to be freely received in Mainland China will be an effective means to quickly disintegrate the Jiang faction. Hu and Wen have already tested this out a number of times on Baidu, and it has now come time for the harvest.

Dissolve the CCP

Finally, Hu and Wen must have the ultimate determination and courage to completely dissolve the CCP. By now, the majority of Chinese people have already lost confidence in the CCP and carry no hope for political reform of the Party. Therefore, statements calling for “political reform” are ineffective in China’s current social climate and cannot resolve the fundamental issues that plague Chinese society today. The true hero will be the one who complies with the public’s aspirations and the trend of history.

In fact, the CCP’s middle and upper ranks, including Hu, Wen, and Xi, are well aware of the CCP’s ultimate doom. They too know that well over one hundred million Chinese have openly quit from the CCP and its affiliated youth organizations. It has become an unstoppable movement for the Chinese people to abandon the CCP.

If Hu and Wen are able seize this momentary opportunity to promote true fundamental reform as did the former heads of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, it will benefit the people and the country. They will also save themselves from being disgraced and eliminated along with the inevitable disintegration of the CCP.